Madhya Pradesh Industrial Promotion Policy 2025, launched in February 2025 includes how many sector specific strategies?

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Correct — B, 10. The Madhya Pradesh Industrial Promotion Policy 2025 was cleared by the state cabinet on 11 February 2025 and notified later the same month, deliberately timed for the Global Investors Summit held at Bhopal on 24-25 February 2025. Section 9 of the policy document, headed 'Sector Specific Policies', runs from sub-section 9.1 to 9.10 — ten strategies in all: agriculture, dairy and food processing; textiles; garment and apparel, footwear, toys and accessories; aerospace and defence production; pharmaceuticals; biotechnology; medical devices; electric-vehicle manufacturing; renewable-energy equipment manufacturing; and high value-added manufacturing. Each strategy carries its own tailored package of capital subsidy, operating-cost support, R&D assistance and export/freight help, instead of a single incentive menu for all industries.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) One short of the notified count. Nine is the answer you land on if you drop any single sector from the list — most often 'high value-added manufacturing', which sounds like a description rather than a named strategy, or 'medical devices', which is easily merged with pharmaceuticals.  (c) Over-counts by one. Eleven is what you get by counting the chapter that follows Section 9 — financial assistance for private industrial park developers — as though it were a sector strategy. It is a general enabler open to all sectors, not one of the ten.  (d) Over-counts by two, typically by adding both of the chapters that follow the sector section — private industrial park developers, and plug-and-play facilities for manufacturing and services. The sector list itself stops at 9.10.

Concept: Indian states now write industrial policy in two layers. The top layer is an umbrella policy that fixes the growth targets, the ease-of-doing-business machinery and the general incentives; under it sit sector-specific strategies that tune the incentive design to what a particular industry actually needs — a food-processing unit needs cold-chain and freight support, a pharmaceutical unit needs R&D and regulatory support, an EV plant needs plant-and-machinery subsidy. Madhya Pradesh's Industrial Promotion Policy 2025 follows exactly this shape, with ten such sector strategies. It also replaces multi-department approvals with single-window permissions, and sets headline economic goals: about 20 lakh jobs over five years, a GSDP of USD 305 billion by 2028-29 and a USD 2 trillion state economy by 2047.

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